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<div style="text-align: justify;">The Restoration of the gospel of Jesus Christ and the history of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints began when God the Father and his Son Jesus Christ appeared to the youthful Joseph Smith in spring 1820. In the brilliant light of this key event, almost everything else in Church history pales by comparison.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">&nbsp;</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">Fortunately, Joseph Smith spoke and wrote on several occasions about this sublime and formative experience, now known as the First Vision. In addition to numerous circumstantial and secondary evidences that have expanded and supported our historical knowl-edge of this all-important event, ten accounts, written or dictated by Joseph Smith himself or recorded at the time by someone who heard him, are available to modern readers. Few events so central to the foundation of any world religion are so informatively documented.</div>


Opening the Heavens: Accounts of Divine Manifestation, 1820-1844

Analysis of Joseph Smith's Accounts of His First Vision

Analysis of Joseph Smith's Accounts of His First Vision

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Analysis of Joseph Smith's Accounts of His First Vision

Book Title

Opening the Heavens: Accounts of Divine Manifestation, 1820-1844

Publication Type

Book

Chapter

2

Year of Publication

2017

Authors

Allen, James B. (Primary), and Welch, John W. (Primary)

Editors

Welch, John W. (Secondary)

Edition

2

Pagination

36-77

Publisher

BYU Press/Deseret Book

City

Provo, UT/Salt Lake City

URL

https://byustudies.byu.edu/content/opening-heavens-accounts-divine-manifestations-1820-1844-second-edition

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